Senate: From 2000 - 2002 the Democrats held the majority 50-49-1 (D) - (R) - (I) with the defection for Jeffords who was a republican, went indep, and caucases with the Democrats.
Bzzzzt! Wrong answer! Jeffords didn't defect until 2001, it was because of the way the Bush administration treated him. He appearently wasn't ideologically pure enough for the Bushies so Karl Rove decided to hold a dinner for Vermont Teachers and not invite him. That tended to piss him off so he changed his affiliation to Independent to punish the Republicans. You think they would have learned their lesson, but alas......
Well, one caveat of private research, you only hear about their successes, never their failures. For instance, for a university, a truck that goes a few miles is quite an accomplishment, but could you imagine the PR disaster if Ford unveiling something like this?
Not saying you are wrong, I agree that private sector research and development has lagged for a long time(well, ever since the term ROI became a buzzword really, everyone is focused on short term) but I don't think it's fair to say they are doing nothing, they just don't publicize as much as universities do.
Are you sure you aren't actually supposed to unlock a lot of this stuff? LSL games tend to be full of secrets that you have to explore/solve puzzles to find. It could just be that a lot of these features that are on the game were meant to be found, not done with a patch.
Personally, I don't care that you use the patch, but it might detract a little of the joy of finding these obscure things and getting the rewards.
HAHAHAHAHA, I love your math!
I know that your tiny little brain can't handle 3rd grade math, so I will go slow, OK? By your calculations, in Afghanistan, the US has 3,500x20 = 70,000 troops. The total force in Afghanistan is only about 18,000 troops and that includes all the troops from all over the world. I ordinarily don't flame, but when someone says something this stupid, they deserve to be mocked. Once again, graduate from elementary school and maybe we can talk.
One of the more interesting things I saw in a video game store in Japan was a ps2 controller/keyboard combo. It had the layout of a normal ps2 controller, only slightly wider and a bit longer. But instead of the gap in the center of the controller, there was a qwerty keyboard with tiny keys. Interesting, but it really wasn't worth it to me, since I didn't lug my ps2 along for the trip, and I really don't like online gaming.
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the legal section in that in the EULA for OS X it states that you cannot install OS X on any non-Apple hardware(probably due to the whole clone thing that failed miserably), I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, but it's an issue they should have addressed.
Neither the French nor the Germans have demonstrated any real ability to deploy a large number of troops at all,
Um, you do realize that both French and German troops are currently in Afghanistan, and they have been there for quite a while. Even the American commander in Afghanistan said he counts the French troops among the best he has. Last time I checked, large parts of Afghanistan are deserts, and very rough deserts at that.
Maybe you should stop watching so much Bill O'Reilly, and oh I dunno, go learn a fact or two, then come back and we can talk.
she, can quit anytime and never look back.
I think the she gave away the lie more than anything else, now I know you are talking about a made up person.
I beg to differ. People seem to think that "coding" is the only important aspect of software. It's far from it.
Case in point, MS Windows. I actually read a book on programming security from the head of security at Microsoft(yeah, laugh all you want), and it gave some interesting insight to the corprate culture at Microsoft. The talking heads at the top want a shitload of features, and they want it by an unrealistic deadline(which, with the exception of longhorn, they almost always meet), and security gets pushed to the back, and maybe only added in as an afterthought.
Contrary to popular belief here on/., MS does not hire idiots to write their code, but even good programmers aren't miracle workers. When they have their hands tied with a looming deadline and a feature list that only grows longer, they can't do it all, and bugs are bound to sprout up.
I think Linux main security advantage lies not in that almost anyone in the world can look at the code(though that helps) it's that there is no "mono culture", you get a lot of interesting ideas contributed to the kernel, some are good, some not so good. Eventually the bad ideas fade away and you are left with a very solid operating system.
What the hell was Clinton supposed to do, attack North Korea? Are you THAT stupid? Are you totally un-aware of the number of heavy artillery guns pointed at Seoul? If the Americans were to attack, the first wave would have basically been going on a suicide mission. Let alone mention the number of civilian casualties in Seoul. Or you could be really stupid and used nuclear weapons. China would have LOVED that. Or Clinton could have just used tough words but left North Korea to it's own devices like Dubya and they could have even more bombs and missiles by now. What a great idea!
Tell ya what, I'll support an attack on North Korea if you, Jenna, and Barbra the younger are all defending the DMZ. Something tells me if those guns were pointed at you, you wouldn't be acting so tough.
Um, so I missed an o. I have a wireless keyboard; it misses strokes from time to time. I would care if this were say, an important document, but it's a fucking joke on/., you really need to learn to get a life Mr. AC.
Heh, well it depends on how they do this. Remember, they do have some talented physicists and engineers probably capable of building a nuclear bomb. That knowledge had to come from somewhere outside of what the good Dr. Khan sold them.
They could be stupid and just send the party elite's children to this school because they found a virus on the internet and modded it to set the background of every computer to the picture of Kim Il Sung. OR they could have found students that were adept in math and languages and trained them to go to a university overseas(in China, Japan, South Korea, or the US) using fradulent passports etc. Remember, they did kidnap some Japanese people so they could learn their language, customs, etc. So it's very posible that right now there are North Korean spies studying at MIT, Shanghai University, Tokyo University, and the Seoul Institute of Technology(I'm not sure that all these places exist, but you get my point)
Hard to say with Mr. Il, he can be brilliant at some points, and incredibly stupid at others....
The summary promised a poll I could vote on, but I saw no Cowboy Neal option. Surely Bush, Kerry, and Nader would provide an insightful commentary on the life of said cowboy!
Um.....perhaps you should read the constitution there, eh?
Here is a quick link: about the twelth amendment which was adopted when Thomas Jefferson became John Adams vice president, even though they were of two different political parties. So as my scenario CORRECTLY points out, it is theoreticaly possible to elect a president and vice president of different parties. It just doesn't happen(since the electors are big supporters of the president, they are almost certain to be big supporters of the vice president as well)
Oh yeah, and Aaron Burr wasn't VP till 1800, not in the 1700's. Please learn some history and civics before shooting your mouth off about how someone is wrong, k?
Which could raise an interesting scenario:
Suppose before the election, Bush kicks off, but not through a terrorist attack(which would get people to vote for Cheney more likely), but choking on a pretzel(Montezuma's curse ya' know), but Bush still wins by 1 electoral vote, but then, in the Vice Presidential election(remember, they are technically 2 different votes), but one elector gets spooked by Cheney and switches his vote to Edwards. Edwards could then become president without Kerry!
Not to mention that he has to take a dialysis machine with him wherever he goes. A giant Arab man with a dialysis machine tends to be very consipicous...
But OTOH, a lot of his senior officials are still alive today(some of them still active), but very few people know if they were in Tora Bora at the time.
Both him and Badnarick have said things so amazingly stupid as to make me not want to support them at all(Badnarick claiming that literacy was better 100 years ago than it is now), and now this: Food was grown by humankind for an awfully long time and rather successfully before the advent of pesticides and herbicides. We don't need that poison on our foods, on our soil or in our water supplies. And we don't need Frankenfood either.
Being a green you would have thought he would have heard about the green revolution part of which includes pesticides. Farming is much better today than it was, "thousands of years ago" in part because farmers can now kill insects which used to devour fields. In fact, most, if not all of the famines of the 20th century were not because there wasn't enough food, it's because the corrupt governments in those land would not allow food to be distributed. I'm not claiming that pesticides are a great and wonderful thing, and their use certainly needs to be limited and alternatives researched, but saying that we don't need them because people grew food for thousands of years before them is just plain dumb.
Is it too much to ask that a presidential candidate change his ideology to match the facts instead of trying to change the facts to match the ideology?
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Senate: From 2000 - 2002 the Democrats held the majority 50-49-1 (D) - (R) - (I) with the defection for Jeffords who was a republican, went indep, and caucases with the Democrats.
Bzzzzt! Wrong answer! Jeffords didn't defect until 2001, it was because of the way the Bush administration treated him. He appearently wasn't ideologically pure enough for the Bushies so Karl Rove decided to hold a dinner for Vermont Teachers and not invite him. That tended to piss him off so he changed his affiliation to Independent to punish the Republicans. You think they would have learned their lesson, but alas......
Well, one caveat of private research, you only hear about their successes, never their failures. For instance, for a university, a truck that goes a few miles is quite an accomplishment, but could you imagine the PR disaster if Ford unveiling something like this?
Not saying you are wrong, I agree that private sector research and development has lagged for a long time(well, ever since the term ROI became a buzzword really, everyone is focused on short term) but I don't think it's fair to say they are doing nothing, they just don't publicize as much as universities do.
Are you sure you aren't actually supposed to unlock a lot of this stuff? LSL games tend to be full of secrets that you have to explore/solve puzzles to find. It could just be that a lot of these features that are on the game were meant to be found, not done with a patch.
Personally, I don't care that you use the patch, but it might detract a little of the joy of finding these obscure things and getting the rewards.
HAHAHAHAHA, I love your math!
I know that your tiny little brain can't handle 3rd grade math, so I will go slow, OK? By your calculations, in Afghanistan, the US has 3,500x20 = 70,000 troops. The total force in Afghanistan is only about 18,000 troops and that includes all the troops from all over the world. I ordinarily don't flame, but when someone says something this stupid, they deserve to be mocked. Once again, graduate from elementary school and maybe we can talk.
One of the more interesting things I saw in a video game store in Japan was a ps2 controller/keyboard combo. It had the layout of a normal ps2 controller, only slightly wider and a bit longer. But instead of the gap in the center of the controller, there was a qwerty keyboard with tiny keys. Interesting, but it really wasn't worth it to me, since I didn't lug my ps2 along for the trip, and I really don't like online gaming.
the legal section in that in the EULA for OS X it states that you cannot install OS X on any non-Apple hardware(probably due to the whole clone thing that failed miserably), I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, but it's an issue they should have addressed.
Neither the French nor the Germans have demonstrated any real ability to deploy a large number of troops at all,
Um, you do realize that both French and German troops are currently in Afghanistan, and they have been there for quite a while. Even the American commander in Afghanistan said he counts the French troops among the best he has. Last time I checked, large parts of Afghanistan are deserts, and very rough deserts at that.
Maybe you should stop watching so much Bill O'Reilly, and oh I dunno, go learn a fact or two, then come back and we can talk.
I'm thinking /. poll:
Favorite source of energy?:
1. Wind
2. Coal
3. Nuclear
4. Geothermal
5. Cowboy Neal on an exercise bike hooked to a generator
she, can quit anytime and never look back.
I think the she gave away the lie more than anything else, now I know you are talking about a made up person.
I beg to differ. People seem to think that "coding" is the only important aspect of software. It's far from it. /., MS does not hire idiots to write their code, but even good programmers aren't miracle workers. When they have their hands tied with a looming deadline and a feature list that only grows longer, they can't do it all, and bugs are bound to sprout up.
Case in point, MS Windows. I actually read a book on programming security from the head of security at Microsoft(yeah, laugh all you want), and it gave some interesting insight to the corprate culture at Microsoft. The talking heads at the top want a shitload of features, and they want it by an unrealistic deadline(which, with the exception of longhorn, they almost always meet), and security gets pushed to the back, and maybe only added in as an afterthought.
Contrary to popular belief here on
I think Linux main security advantage lies not in that almost anyone in the world can look at the code(though that helps) it's that there is no "mono culture", you get a lot of interesting ideas contributed to the kernel, some are good, some not so good. Eventually the bad ideas fade away and you are left with a very solid operating system.
What the hell was Clinton supposed to do, attack North Korea? Are you THAT stupid? Are you totally un-aware of the number of heavy artillery guns pointed at Seoul? If the Americans were to attack, the first wave would have basically been going on a suicide mission. Let alone mention the number of civilian casualties in Seoul. Or you could be really stupid and used nuclear weapons. China would have LOVED that. Or Clinton could have just used tough words but left North Korea to it's own devices like Dubya and they could have even more bombs and missiles by now. What a great idea!
Tell ya what, I'll support an attack on North Korea if you, Jenna, and Barbra the younger are all defending the DMZ. Something tells me if those guns were pointed at you, you wouldn't be acting so tough.
Um, so I missed an o. I have a wireless keyboard; it misses strokes from time to time. I would care if this were say, an important document, but it's a fucking joke on /., you really need to learn to get a life Mr. AC.
Heh, well it depends on how they do this. Remember, they do have some talented physicists and engineers probably capable of building a nuclear bomb. That knowledge had to come from somewhere outside of what the good Dr. Khan sold them.
They could be stupid and just send the party elite's children to this school because they found a virus on the internet and modded it to set the background of every computer to the picture of Kim Il Sung. OR they could have found students that were adept in math and languages and trained them to go to a university overseas(in China, Japan, South Korea, or the US) using fradulent passports etc. Remember, they did kidnap some Japanese people so they could learn their language, customs, etc. So it's very posible that right now there are North Korean spies studying at MIT, Shanghai University, Tokyo University, and the Seoul Institute of Technology(I'm not sure that all these places exist, but you get my point)
Hard to say with Mr. Il, he can be brilliant at some points, and incredibly stupid at others....
The summary promised a poll I could vote on, but I saw no Cowboy Neal option. Surely Bush, Kerry, and Nader would provide an insightful commentary on the life of said cowboy!
Till it devolves into gameboy goatse drawings.....
to start teaching your baby about the PATRIOT Act :P
Um.....perhaps you should read the constitution there, eh?
Here is a quick link:
about the twelth amendment which was adopted when Thomas Jefferson became John Adams vice president, even though they were of two different political parties. So as my scenario CORRECTLY points out, it is theoreticaly possible to elect a president and vice president of different parties. It just doesn't happen(since the electors are big supporters of the president, they are almost certain to be big supporters of the vice president as well)
Oh yeah, and Aaron Burr wasn't VP till 1800, not in the 1700's. Please learn some history and civics before shooting your mouth off about how someone is wrong, k?
Which could raise an interesting scenario:
Suppose before the election, Bush kicks off, but not through a terrorist attack(which would get people to vote for Cheney more likely), but choking on a pretzel(Montezuma's curse ya' know), but Bush still wins by 1 electoral vote, but then, in the Vice Presidential election(remember, they are technically 2 different votes), but one elector gets spooked by Cheney and switches his vote to Edwards. Edwards could then become president without Kerry!
They are distant cousins, so you could even throw "incestuous" into the mix :P
Not to mention that he has to take a dialysis machine with him wherever he goes. A giant Arab man with a dialysis machine tends to be very consipicous...
But OTOH, a lot of his senior officials are still alive today(some of them still active), but very few people know if they were in Tora Bora at the time.
Wow, somebody didn't have his morning cup of coffee.... :P
Heh, well, it depends. You aren't 100% correct there. The House decides the election, but each state gets 1 vote(not 1 vote per representative)
Both him and Badnarick have said things so amazingly stupid as to make me not want to support them at all(Badnarick claiming that literacy was better 100 years ago than it is now), and now this:
Food was grown by humankind for an awfully long time and rather successfully before the advent of pesticides and herbicides. We don't need that poison on our foods, on our soil or in our water supplies. And we don't need Frankenfood either.
Being a green you would have thought he would have heard about the green revolution part of which includes pesticides. Farming is much better today than it was, "thousands of years ago" in part because farmers can now kill insects which used to devour fields. In fact, most, if not all of the famines of the 20th century were not because there wasn't enough food, it's because the corrupt governments in those land would not allow food to be distributed. I'm not claiming that pesticides are a great and wonderful thing, and their use certainly needs to be limited and alternatives researched, but saying that we don't need them because people grew food for thousands of years before them is just plain dumb.
Is it too much to ask that a presidential candidate change his ideology to match the facts instead of trying to change the facts to match the ideology?
Pffft...the British, what have they ever done. It's Tonga's secret service all the way!
to find australiens
Best...typo.....EVER!
I for one welcome our new Aussie space invader overlords!